Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 135 APO images
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:49:34 -0700 (PDT)

XP is supposed to have color management, but I don't
know how it compares to the Mac. 
- --- Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Monday, July 8, 2002 11:46 AM -0700 Mitch
> Zeissler 
> <zeissler@directvinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mark...
> >
> > I know that Macs handle video differently than the
> PC
> > world does.
> >
> > I have both a Mac and PC at work [and a PC at
> home,
> > which is what I did the image processing with]. 
> On my
> > Mac at work, if I use the standard iMac video
> setup in
> > System Preferences [1.8 Standard Gamma], she looks
> a
> > little on the green side and washed out.  If I use
> the
> > 2.2 Television Gamma video setup, she looks
> better.  If
> > I use No Correction [native] Gamma, she looks as I
> > intended, with normal skin color and no washed out
> > colors.  All of these settings are with a white
> point
> > of 9300.  When I compare the best iMac image
> against
> > the same images displayed on my PC monitor, the
> colors
> > on the PC have more snap and look truer to my
> original
> > intent.
> 
> I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I
> believe that the PC 
> *still* does't have any color management built-in.
> Don't forget, the idea 
> is that what you see on the screen is what you will
> see in a print -- not 
> simply that it look pleasing on the screen.
> 
> As of Mac OS X, Colorsync is built into the system
> and turned on by 
> default, which makes end to end color management
> much easier -- which is to 
> say, still difficult ;-).
> 
> --
> Rolfe Tessem
> rolfe@ldp.com
> Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
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